10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Mark Twain
Mark Twain ran his life like an RPG: pilot, author, bankrupt, then a world-touring comeback. His OP Hero…
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10000 Hours of Play
Articles on 10000 Hours of Play — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur ran his life like a 50-year game against the invisible world of microbes. Here's his OP…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens set three world records on an injured back, then won four golds in Hitler's Berlin. His…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Charlie Chaplin
A boy from a London workhouse became the most loved figure of the silent era. Charlie Chaplin's life,…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong met three brushes with death with procedure instead of panic. His life, run through the 10,000…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Grace Hopper
How Grace Hopper turned computing from an arcane craft into a human language, read through the 10,000 Hours…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Richard Branson
How Richard Branson built the Virgin empire across records, airlines, and rockets, read through Yu-kai Chou's 6-Step 10,000…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug's 10,000 Hours of Play build: a 65-year quest from a Cresco, Iowa farm to wheat varieties…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Plato
Plato's 50-year run after 399 BCE — Academy, Republic, three failed Syracuse trips, and the Laws — read…